Gaston Soumialot

Gaston Soumialot was a member of the Parti Solidaire Africain of Congo-Leopoldville and a leader of the Simba Rebellion in the 1960s.

Biography
Gaston Soumialot was a leftist who was a member of Antoine Gizenga's radical Parti Solidaire Africain before the independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Belgium. He served as Minister of Defense under Patrice Lumumba's government, and after Lumumba's assassination, Soumialot was one of the leaders of the Simba Rebellion against Joseph-Desire Mobutu's dictatorship, fighting against the government until the uprising was crushed in less than a year despite support from Cuba, the Soviet Union, and China.